Events over the past couple of years, including President Jacob Zuma’s determination to fire the finance minister and his deputy, show SA is on the fast track to perdition and neither common sense nor reason will prevent it. To use disaster/horror-movie tropes, SA is the train, the driver (Zuma) is zombie-fied and the crew (the ANC alliance) are fighting for the loot in the baggage coach. Despite knowing the runaway train is heading for disaster, the passengers in the observation car (that’s us) are arguing about the scenery or place we’ve just come from (Helen Zille, political correctness and other irrelevancies). Case in point: Steven Friedman’s appalling, facile generalisations about "those against ‘political correctness’ [PC] seek right to express prejudice freely" are the kind of irrelevancies — the PC tableau — that occupy this country’s so-called intellectuals and opinion makers, while fires are being set. Incidentally, I and many people I know are against PC, so I guess by F...
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